A Comparison Of Trout and Cow in Calf by Seamus Heaney

... A Comparison Of Trout and Cow in Calf by Seamus Heaney The poem "Trout" is a description of a trout's movements through a river. It uses much repeated imagery and similes to achieve this description of the trout. The poem is made up of four stanzas, each of four lines, and then a single isolated line at the end of the poem. The poem has no regular rhyme scheme, however, it does contain one internal rhyme in the third stanza: "Where the water unravels/ over gravel-beds" The rhythm of the poem is irregular; Heaney uses punctuation and enjambment to achieve this irregularity. At the beginning on the first and fourth stanzas he uses punctuation to isolate the first word of these stanzas, changing the natural rhythm of the poem. I will now examine "Trout" in detail, line by line. Heaney uses two pieces of imagery on the first line: "Hangs, a fat

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